#adventure

I was afraid, sheer afraid, and wondered at myself. You see, I've no more pluck than any man of my inches but I'd been about a good bit. I'd seen adventure and heard other fellows talk it over, and I knew you're pretty sure to get out of everything with a whole skin till that last particular time that you don't - so what's the use of grizzling? ("Golden Baby") ↗

— Alice Brown

#courage #death #fate #fear #luck

The dead tread softly... And those stalking the living tread even more lightly. ↗

— C.M. Palov

#death #fight #life-and-death #death

I think I rescued myself. ↗

— Donna K. Childree

#adventure-travel #family-relationships #siblings #family

I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way. ↗

— Alfred Noyes

#romantic-adventure #romantic

You’ll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people more than anything else. You will need other people and you will need to be that other person to someone else, a living breathing screaming invitation to believe better things. ↗

— Jamie Tworkowski

#airplanes #believe #better #coffee #love

All things in Fiji are paid for in blood. ↗

— Lance Morcan

#adventure #fiji #historical-fiction #historical-romance #romance

A force de peindre la vie des autres, il avait oublié de peindre la sienne." On ne se tue pas pour une femme (2000) ↗

— Olivier Weber

#fiction #french-literature #literature #love #painting

She loves dogs. And in time, who knows, maybe she would even have ended up loving the type of dogs who eat other small dogs for lunch. -- Leslie McNeill ↗

— Richard Finney

#alpha-male #apocalyptic #contemporary #extraterrestrials #paranormal

I constantly reminded myself with the fact that the world isn't about what's fair, but how you cope with what is unfair. ↗

— Hiro

#love-story #love

Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#inspirational #inspirational